Improvement in match-safes



W. L. HUBBELL & F. OGHS.

Match-Safes.

No. 195,928. Patented Oct. 9, 1877.

NJETFRS. FHOTO-UTHOGHAPHER, WASHINGTON D .w r-e s UNITED STATES PATENTQFFIGE.

WILLIAM L. HUBBELL AND FREDERICK OOHS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGN- ORSTO SAID HUBBELL AND ANTHONY OEGHS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MATCH-SAFES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 195,928, dated October9, 1877; application filed September 10, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM L. HUBBELL and FREDERICK 0011s, of the cityand State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Match- Safes, ofwhich the following is a specification The match-safe is made in thegeneral form of a bottle, the neck and stopper being of cast metal andthe body of sheet metal, the two being secured by spreading the castmetal within the tapering portion of the sheet metal. There is a pushpin running through the neck of the bottle and connected with a diskwithin the hollow sheet metal portion, and there is a movable cover,with a spring to keep it shut, which spring is around a pivot at oneside within a tubular bearing attached to the sheet-metal body, whichsheet metal body of the bottle forms the match-safe.

When the push-pin is pressed upon, its disk acts against thefulcrmn-pin, pushing the cover out of the match-safe, and its springturns it aside.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the match-safe, andFig. 2 is an inverted plan of the same as opened.

The cast-metal portion a is made in imitation of the neck and stopper ofa bottle. The sheet-metal case b is tapered at one end, and receiveswithin it the cylindrical portion of the neck, so that the end of thecase b willrest against the shoulder 2, and the cylindrical portion willbe spread, by a punch, within the taper of the case, so as to connectthe parts.

There is a hole through the part a, through which passes the push-pin c,and upon the inner end there is the disk d.

The cover 0 is of a size to sit within the 0 en end of the case b, andthe same is connected to the pivot-pin i, that extends through the tube1, and its end is contiguous to the disk d. There is a spring, m, aroundthe pivotpin i, that tends to keep the cover shut, and

one end of such spring on is attached to the pivotpin and the other tothe tube 1, so that the spring is slightly wound up when the cover 0 iswithin the case b. This portion is similar to the spring cover inLetters Patent No. 176,863.

The matches will be placed in the case b and the cover 0 closed, and thesafe will usuallystand upon the bottom of the representa tive bottle, asin Fig. 1. Hence in opening the safe it should be held bottom up, and bypushing on the pin 0 the disk (I and pivot wire 2' will be moved and thecover 0 raised against the action of the spring m, so that it is freefrom the case b, when the spring on uncoils it self and turns the cover6 aside, giving access to the matches in the box.

The cover is to be turned around in closing the box to partially coilthe spring, and when the cover reaches the open end of the safe b thespring m draws the cover into its place, retaining the matches securely.

We claim as our invention 1. The match safe made of the metal neck a andsheet-metal body I), having a tapering end, secured by the cylinder ofthe neck being spread within the tapering portion of the body, as setforth.

2. The combination, in a match-safe, of the case b, the neck a, pusher0, disk d, tube 1, pivot 1', cover 0, and spring m, substantially as setforth.

3. A match-safe in the form of a bottle, with a removable cover at thebottom, as a new article of manufacture.

Signed by us this 6th day of September, A. D. 1877.

WM. L. HUBBELL. FREDERICK ()OHS.

Witnesses G110. T. PINCKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH.

